rebeccalouisaferguson:“He saw that she hadn’t been listening to him, focused on her word
rebeccalouisaferguson:“He saw that she hadn’t been listening to him, focused on her words, wondering: Yes – why didn’t she make him do this? She could make him do virtually anything. He spoke quickly because here was truth and a change of subject: ‘Would you think it bold of me …Jessica, if I asked a personal question?’ She pressed against the window ledge in an unexplainable pang of disquiet. ‘Of course not. You’re … my friend.’ Why haven’t you made the Duke marry you?’ She whirled, head up, glaring. ‘Made him marry me? But—’‘I should not have asked,’ he said. ‘No.’ She shrugged. ‘There’s good political reason – as long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance. And …’ She sighed. ‘… motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. If I made him do … this, then it would not be his doing….”“The Duke and I are father and mother surrogates to our people,’ she said. ‘The position—’ ‘He hasn’t married you,’ Hawat said. She forced herself to calmness, thinking: A good riposte, that. ‘But he’ll not marry anyone else,’ she said. ‘Not as long as I live. And we are surrogates, as I’ve said. To break up this natural order in our affairs, to disturb, disrupt, and confuse us – which target offers itself most enticingly to the Harkonnens?” REBECCA FERGUSON as the Lady Jessica and OSCAR ISAAC as Duke Leto Atreides in DUNE (2021) dir. DENIS VILLENEUVE -- source link
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